Yolanda Olson is a USA Today Bestselling and award-winning author. Born and raised in Bridgeport, CT where she currently resides, she usually spends her time watching her favorite channel, Investigation Discovery.
Occasionally, she takes a break to write books and test the limits of her mind. Also an avid horror movie fan, she likes to incorporate dark elements into the majority of her books.
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i need to go bleach my eyes out after the crazy unhinged things i’ve just read (spoilers 🚨):
➵ he kidnapped her and held her hostage for 10 years ➵ he carved her eyes out so that she “doesn’t see the bad things in the world 😍” ➵ he then proceeded to fuck her empty eye socket.. whilst she was asleep ➵ AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF.. he made her eat human flesh. or as he called it. “Grace”
this book was a -2/10 but the experience was a slay bc I got to trauma bond with my girls kenzy and maram 🤭☝🏼 so there is a silver lining after all.
it’s currently 2am and ive had enough trauma for the night. siff and ro, join us on group therapy (and pay for it plz)
The thing I really like about Yolanda Olson’s books are how intimate, gritty, and close-range everything is. This book, for example, had ‘Faith’ and Daniel. Daniel is just a sadomasochistic psychopath, and Faith is his somewhat willing victim. He has her so brainwashed from a decade of this abuse that she is convinced she can overpower this person on a psychological warfare front. And in some ways she does, even to her own detriment. Now this is much more sexually deviant than my first experience with Olson’s works, and made me a bit squeamish at times. But the entire story is just so consistent in its approach to each aspect of the characters and their uncomfortable encounters, that you are left shaken at times. The one conversation where Daniel takes credit for correcting some of Faith’s prior, unfavorable lifestyle choices and making her believe that she needed his abuse for her own good really stuck out to me. And his use of faith (religion) really was unnerving, too. You wanted this devil of a person to be hurt and massacred, matching all the terrible misdeeds he’s committed over his tenure as a killer. And that was what the author wanted you to feel. On a side note, speaking of religious-based extremism and abuse like this, I grew up in some very inappropriate and nasty religious settings. And, as insane as it may sound, some of the people in these congregations, even those in leadership and administrative roles, were so abusive and extreme, that I could easily picture them in a role like Daniel’s here. They would manipulate a pure thing like faith in a higher power and kindness to your to fellow man, to suite whatever their nasty agendas were, and would convince you that it is justified. Now, despite my Preternatural trilogy leaning on religion, I am not a very religious person, but I am more spiritual, respecting other people’s decisions and beliefs when it comes to their spirituality. But it still greatly bothers me to see real world horror like this as fairly commonplace around the world. And, back to the book, people like Daniel are more common that I think any of us would like to admit. And the author used sensitive topics like religion to really make you dislike the antagonist. Skillful writing, for sure!
what the fuck just happened ? if y'all want a review go check rowan's review, it said everything that needed to be said 😭 ------ pre-review: don’t even ask, this was totally rowan’s idea and i had nothing to do with it !! it was totally mine 🤫 anyway, i’ve read he made love to her eye socket, which totally isn’t the reason why i wanted to read it 👀 i have a feeling i’m about to get traumatised
This book is what you see in the corner of your eyes when you have sleep paralysis.
This book follows Daniel, who meets this pretty girl called faith? Lone ? Miss nuts? Whatever you wanna call her🥰 it was love at first sight what can we say about it .He helps her understand the meaning of life he wants nothing but to protect her. He can’t let her see the cruelty of this world, so he carved her eye out then fucked her eye socket. He is that GOOD of a man, but don't worry guys He is also surgically trained.
“I don’t have any pain medication or anything to sedate you with, so the best I can do is beat you until you pass out,”
Do you think he would dare beat her ?? why are so hard on him guys he would never do such a thing
“Would you prefer I strangle you until you lose consciousness?"
yeah he did that instead...what a sweetheart .
What makes this so magical is that she was blind and then magically she could see him. It’s the power of love guys 💕
He is also that kind of guy that will make you breakfast, and he made sure to higher up her standards.
“This doesn’t exactly taste like pig. What kind of meat do you use?”
“Grace”
… Yeah, you guessed it…that’s right he has a girl in his fridge.
At this point, I thought all of this was satire until his grandma appeared and I lost it. That was the funniest chapter to me. This woman was so chill with her grandson having a hostage, like it's the most normal thing ever, so basically she showed up because she wanted to die and wanted them to do it, and when it happened, we saw Daniel crying, and Faith thought he was crying over his grandma, but he was like, No I aM cRyInG oVeR mYsElf 🤪
And don't let me talk about the shampoo scene "Okay. I’ve got one shot at proving that I’m stronger than he thinks I am"
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK WAS THAT? I CAN NEVER LOOK AT ANY SHAMPOO THE SAME WAY AGAIN. they are the perfect couple they are both nuts.
Let’s say that me and my besties read this out of curiosity for shit and giggles. Did it serve its purpose? Yes, did it traumatize us? ABSOLUTELY YES. Will Siff and Rowan pay for our therapy ?ALSO YES
@kenzy @sama Thank you so much babes for this br it was so funny I kept giggling the entire time while we are spamming each other ILYSM BESTIES😭💖💖
i went in knowing it was going to be disturbing with no HEA. THIS IS NOT A DARK ROMANCE.
I cant even give this a rating cause I’m just confused and sad….sad because it was fückïng depressing. And in all honesty can’t recommend. That’s up to you. TW/CW below
SPOILERS BELOW ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ Basically Daniel is crazy and thinks he’s life mission is to cleanse people and basically offer them salvation by torturing and killing them at the end. Daniel meets Faith and her boyfriend at the bar and she becomes his new target because she is a heroine addict. You find out at the end but basically he offers to help her at the bar & tells her what it will entail and she says yes. SHE KNEW THE DEAL. her bf became abusive and she didn’t want to use anymore so she agreed to Daniel’s offer.
She suffers incredible trauma, gr*pe, mutilation and forced cannibalism, SA, gaslighting, murder, assisted unaliving (all the triggers). All in hopes that all this will “cleanse” her so she can get clean from her addiction.
By the end we find out she’s been captive for 10 YEARS. YEARS. Her days leading up to her “salvation” ..and her “death” is coming up and the entire time i was hoping she would kill him and escape. Then the twist happens…
Her day of salvation happens..another torture technique then it cuts to the epilogue where they are sitting at a table for his bday immediately after she’s been tortured. It’s clear she’s weirdly in love with him and won’t leave him. She’s angry cause it took him 10 years to get her sober and lost an eye in the process. Daniel tells us that she is clean and has been saved NOW ITS HIS TURN TO BE SAVED!!! So now basically she’s gonna torture him?????
Oh forgot to mention! His grandma comes to visit. We learn she’s sick and dying and basically wants to be unalived. Daniel forces faith to unalive his grandma. The grandma is ON BOARD WITH THIS. but faith couldn’t do it and Daniel tells her he knew she was always a coward 🫠🫠
👀Ok the eye socket scene…she’s been blindfolded for nearly 10 years. He takes it off to check on her eyes. She can see but one eye is badly infected and he needs to remove it. SHE AGREES. and so he knocks her it to remove it. She wakes up to find him just “finishing” in the socket. And she’s grossed out but also like meh fine …she’s resigned to dying and doesn’t care anymore.
3 things 1) I saw some of my gr friends read this and talk about how unhinged it is so naturally I had to check it out 2) I obviously had to read it with my bestfriend but she said “oh yeah I read that last year, Daniel is so dangerous and sexy “ 3) I’m questioning the morals of my bestfriend and I, an atheist, will go to evening church tomorrow.
The unhinged things which made me lose my mind
😲- so apparently Ione is a heroine addict and she meets Daniel who drugs her and kidnaps her 😲- he ties a rug thingy around her eyes and has her wait till he’s done with the other girls. This takes ten years 😲- he takes her outside, ties a metal pitchfork thingy around her neck (if she brings her head down she will be impaled) then makes her suck his dick. Why? Because she politely declined to go on a walk 😲- he takes her to a room and ties this heavy ass chastity belt around her!!? And locks it with a padlock. Naturally being a man, he became horny so he inserted a rod in her then told her to add her hands. This is painful and makes her bleed. She says she can’t do it 😲- he gets mad then spreads her legs apart and inserts the rod in her clit. Nope you’re wrong I don’t mean pussy. I mean her clit, that little hole there on our clit, he puts the rod there then fucks it. She is bleeding and mind you she still has her blindfold on and can’t see shit 😲- he invited her for breakfast and feeds her pancakes with bacon. We get to find out the bacon is grace ( yep he burnt one of the girls and turned her into meat. Then forces her to eat it 😲- he then removed the blindfold and after 10 years, well one eye is infected. He strangled her till she was unconscious, took the infected eye out then fucked the eye socket whiles she was unconscious. She woke up to him finishing in the hole 😲- his grandmother comes over and he tells her to kill the grandma ( don’t worry, the grandma requested that) she obviously couldn’t do it 😲- he also ties her up with bared wires to the tree.
Spoilers
Now at the end we find out it was a planned thing and her bf was abusive and made her a drug addict so she made a deal with Daniel for him to help her become sober. She didn’t know this was what he was going to do but he did it anyway. And apparently he is inlove with her and they are inlove or sumn?!???
Who held a gun to the heads of those who rated this 5 stars?!?!?!?
I honestly have very few words. This was so sick and twisted. It has me questioning my sanity and why the fuck I continued to read the whole thing. Yeah, I read the triggers before hand but nothing could have prepared me for this!!
I’m just so all over the place with my thoughts. It’s hard for me to rate it because I can’t decide what it should be. Can I just put a question mark? I want to say it was a good story line but some of that shit was beyond messed up for me. The bacon scene? 🤮🤢
The ending has my sputtering like an idiot. Like huhhhhh??
I’m obviously not made out for erotic horror. SILLY ME FOR THINKING IT WAS DARK ROMANCE! BRB while I pick up my fantasy romance book to even out what I just read.
Red flags did abound..........and I chose to ignore them. So I have always been scouring for more crazy horror so to speak. Especially of late I have read several extreme horror novels and have enjoyed many. Honestly though most are just to short and sadly leave me puzzled as to why the author didn't make more of it when all the nasty ingredients were there. Yet I am getting more and more comfortable accepting them as they are as I continue to read them. So I somehow came across this author Yolanda Olson and when reading the jackets on her books I thought wow, paydirt. Yet when I dug deeper and checked out the reviews none of my friends really reviewed her books. Clearly I understood this from my main friend group which consists of thrillers and so called normal horror friends but I was surprised that none of my hardcore horror friends had reviewed the book. So I messaged one of my main newfound extreme horror friends who I refer to as the Queen of Horror (Leeanne) to get her input. She admitted she had not read Olson but that yeah her books sound quite fascinating. So I'll get to the review shortly but after reading this book it reminded me of my search for extreme horror when I first started back into reading. I came across the tag of "DARK". I thought dark was crazy horror but I was new to reading. I was so disappointed with that read that I thought I stayed away from DARK for years but now finding true extreme horror and looking at some of my extreme horror reads they too are tagged DARK. So I guess stuff happens and you just get stuck with a bad read no matter the tag every once and while. A label of Dark does not necessarily act as Don't Read or Stay Away sign to me anymore as clearly there have been many with that tag that I enjoyed. So this novel deals with an abduction of our main character and what happens to her. She is held captive and abused over a ten year period. My take on DARK for the most part are some sex scenes which are supposed to stun you. I don't know but most to me are not written all that great and though they are supposed to stun me I am actually left quite unimpressed and even bored with what the author came up with because my twisted mind expects oh so much more. Yes sadly I know that might say something about me :) So the writing was meh to me. Nothing special, nothing that grabbed at me. The ending was different. A bit stupid as well as the author comes to explain how the whole abduction unfolded and it is not really buyable at all. Yet at the same time quite unique and interesting and hence a second star. It actually sets up for what could honestly be a pretty good sequel if done correctly. I had sadly ordered another book by this author (called BONES) and was going to hold back on this review until I read that one. Two things though. First what does one have to do with the other? Second and more importantly why put myself through another read by this author when I was so dissatisfied with my first experience. I think I will give it some time before getting to Bones as I need it! This book lists at 260 pages but is a very quick read. The print is large and the spacing is weird too - you need to see it to understand it. At the beginning of each chapter there are weird blank gaps. In one chapter there is clearly missing material as well. Honestly this book is like most books being 100 pages. Don't really know why I got into all that other than to show there are other issues as well and who knows maybe someone will still be interested. I clearly don't recommend this one and am giving it two stars. I think I will carry on with a more mainstream read for my next.............
Plot ⭐️ Spice 🌶️🌶️ Vibes 0/👏🏻 1st person POV - Faith (no plot spoilers in review but spoiler warning for highlights - though if you have no plans to read this book then you may get a good laugh from them)
(don't tell me this wasn't what you pictured when she described how he'd kept her blinded for those 10 years lmfao)
Guys - this is not a romance. It's a weird combo of sadistic torture/Stockholm syndrome/unhealthy obsession but it's certainly not anything romantic. Saw it on TT and had to sate my curiosity, but.... he literally removes her eye bc it's infected and then fucks the hole its made. I think I gagged. He also penetrates her CLIT with his dick. Not her urethra. I had to reread this scene a few times to make sure I read this correctly. I think he was using a sounding bar in her vagina (the typical P in V way), then used the sounding bar "to open the hole in her clit," switched the rod for a plug, then he put the sounding bar in his urethra, then he removed the bar and penetrated her CLIT with his dick... I've read a lot in my time but I've never heard of fucking a clit like it had a hole of its own... Someone make it make sense. Actually - don't. I need to scrub this book from my brain. And unfortunately this isn't the worst of the torture he puts her through.
The ending is bad because it feels like the author wanted to make it this big twist but all it did was let me down and undermine all of the buildup she'd just created. Maybe some will like that ending but it felt too much like a cop out to me. Read this or don't, it's certainly not a masterpiece but it is quick and kind of entertaining. Kind of like a train wreck you can't look away from.
diarrhea on paper, that's what this shit was, i should have stayed fuckin curious, curiosity did really kill the cat y'all 😭, this was traumatizing the empty eye socket scene will forever hunt my dreams spoiler alert 🚨 he fucked her eye socket, fucked her clit (idk how the fuck but whatever), she put a whole shampoo bottle inside herself (excuse me, miss but i think your vagina is DEAD), he killed a girl and made her eat her flesh (RIP Grace)💀 WHY just why would someone write something like thatttt, this author needs therapy and i do too after what i just read😭, also i wish i was rich so i could take my private jet and fly all the way to Denmark and vomit all over siff for ever mentioning this shit to me 👍🏼
pre review: siff, claudia and hoda were just talking about this shit and I'm SO curious to see for myself wtf is going on, so here we are 🙋🏽♀️.
I’m a curious person. I couldn’t resist. Now, I don’t know what to do with this information.
This is not a romance. It is a horror erotica. From my understanding, it’s not meant to have “sweet moments” or any romanticization, it’s meant to make you uncomfortable and horrified. That being said, I have no idea what to rate this. Did I enjoy it? No…? Did I read the entire thing in one sitting? Yes. It succeeded in making me feel what I was supposed to and was well executed. This is a first from this genre for me and I don’t have a good enough grasp to rate this accurately so I’m just going to leave it without one.
Listen, I am a very tolerant reader. I have no limits. The darker something is, the better. If there's a trigger warning list a mile long? Give it to me.
This was going fine and dandy at first. It's a captive/torture set up, sexual and otherwise. Cool, I'm following along.
BUT THEN IT DESCRIBES THE GUY FUCKING THE WOMAN'S CLITORIS.
HER CLIT.
Not rubbing against it. But ENTERING it. AS IF IT WERE HER PUSSY.
Excuse me, that's PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. Knowledge of female anatomy? Not here.
Spoiler warning, gonna do a run-through of the other shit that goes down: -sounding; mmc sounds (is that the correct verb here? lmao) himself and then proceeds to use the same rod to penetrate FMC's clit before fucking it. Please see my outburst above. -cannibalism; captor kills another victim and makes bacon out of her and then feeds the FMC the cooked flesh. -ties FMC to a tree using barbed wire and leaves her overnight -removes the blindfold he's had her wear for X amount of time, an eye is infected, so he knocks her out and then removes that eye. She wakes to him fucking the eye socket and coming into her skull. -makes her strip naked in front of his grandma. the same grandma he tasks her with killing. grandma's cool with it because she's ill, but fmc backs out. -I think those are the highlights.
This shit isn't dark romance, this is horror erotica. Everything was whatever, it was entertaining I guess, but I'm just livid about the clit fucking. goodBYE.
Honestly I have so many lines and quotes I'd like to share here but I don't want to traumatize anyone. I've read disturbing horror books before and dark romance too but in this one both were mixed..and idk how to feel about that.
And at his point I don't even know what the worst part is? The heretics fork? The chastity belt? The bacon part? The eye socket? The shampoo bottle? The grandma? The ending???
I'll leave this quote here: ”He agreed that he would take care of Trace for me, but I would have to play a game with him. A game of submission and will that would last as long as the number on the card I would draw when I came to. But was it always meant to go this far? Being blinded, beaten, raped? Was this part of his helping me reform my life or had I consigned myself to this in a foolish attempt to get away from the only man that I had ever known.”
Still don't know if I should even rate this book or leave it like this...
I honestly don't recommend this book unless you like the disturbing horror genre.
And don't forget to check the TW before reading this!
This book was 118 pages too long. I don't know how the author managed to make a story about captivity, substance abuse, religious subjugation, torture, rape, murder, cannibalism, and skull-fucking utterly boring. It gave absolutely nothing.
what is it with people feeling the need to write books where women go through the most intense and torturous things on this planet for a man’s sexual pleasure ????? LIKE HOW DOES THIS BOOK BRING ANYTHING TO SOCIETY BESIDES ABSOLUTE DISGUST like i’m so confused.
THE PLOT TWIST BLEW MY FUCKING MIND LIKE WDYM SHE SIGNED UP FOR THIS IM SHOCKED, IN TEARS ALMOST LIKE HUH
chile anyways i hope this author gets whatever therapy she needs bc baby you need a lot of it :)
No creo en la gente que le pone 5 estrellas a esta vaina.
☆Secuestro ☆Abuso sexual y depravación ☆Asesinato ☆Violencia (entre ellos mutilación) ☆Canibalimo ☆Por cierto, no es dark romance, es horror.
Ah... Bueno, no quiero que nadie lea este libro, así que rebelaré puntos de la trama y dejaré a criterio de cada uno, después lo criticaré.
Razones por las que no deberías leer este libro (spoilers de todo):
1. La chica y su novio conocen al psicópata y se van a almorzar con él porque sí. 2. La chica es secuestrada durante 10 años y solo después de eso se pregunta qué le pasó a su novio (spoiler: el loco lo incinero). 3. El loco se cree el diablo y piensa que debe salvar a las almas perdidas porque solo él puede cometer "pecados". 4. Todas las escenas de abuso sexual contienen elementos fuera de lo normal como aparatos de tortura, un tipo de cinturón de castidad y mutilación de un ojo (siendo esta última escena una violación mientras ella está inconciente; pero en medio del acto se despierta). 5. Ella desarrolla un tipo de síndrome de estocolmo; pero al mismo tiempo quiere libertad, vida y después "morirse" (el suicidio nunca es una opción, desde ahí veo las red flags en ella). 6. Se supone que esperan 8 días porque el último día es el cumpleaños de él y la va a matar, eso no pasa y al final dicen que todo fue un plan para que ella dejara de drogarse y estar con su novio abusivo (lo cual es ilógico porque ella también dice que lo sigue amando al muertito) y que ella iba a ser obediente por el tiempo que dijera una carta/acuerdo que se la sacaron del sombrero seguramente porque nada de ese final(y el libro en general) tuvo sentido ( la escritora creyó que este era un plot twist y yo pienso que es la mamada más grande de todos los tiempos).
Alright. Now before anything else, I need to let you guys know that I've read a review for this book already. So I knew this was disturbing…but I let my intrusive thoughts win and decided to check how traumatising this would turn out to be.
Ps. I regretted letting my intrusive thoughts win and would never EVER do it. Ever again.
The book had too much shit going on. I cannot express them in words.
What the heck was the author thinking? What was going on in their mind? Just curious 🎀
Since I cannot bring myself to explain how TERRIBLY TRAUMATISING this book was, I'll give you a gist 🫡
◇ He's such a sweetheart cause what do you mean he Carved her eyes out just so she doesn't see the bad things of this Messed up world~ ◇ Chastity chains?!?! Yeah. (You can see how messed up this is getting.) ◇ Dude treated her in such a kind way that he fed her “grace”...top quality meat I assure you. ◇ Eye socket. That's it.
“Speak softly to me, Daniel. I like your voice when it’s not full of anger,” I said. GURL. WTF. SOMEONE LEND HER A BRAIN CELL OR TWO PLEASE.
This was the Daniel that would kill me without “a second thought, or a last kiss.” IS. SHE. FUCKING. STUPID?!?
“I’ve never seen a sight more beautiful than this. This is where you’ll remain until the morning. I have to prepare and I don’t need you trying to tempt me anymore than you already have. Try not to bleed out before I come back for you,” he whispered into my ear, after he dropped the remaining wire onto the grass beside me. HOW ROMANTIC (😭)
“But my longing was for many things freedom, Trace’s touch, free will, and the feeling of Daniel’s soft lips on me again.” *SIGH* I GIVE UP.
“No. There was something special in me that he saw, and that’s why he kept me around for as long as he did. He could have killed me first, but he didn’t; instead, saving me for last.” *trying hard not to break my phone.*
ALR PEOPLE, GOT TO GO BLEACH MY EYES AND BRAIN. AND I MOST DEFINITELY NEED THERAPY🤡🎀
This book sincerely annoyed me. Plot holes. Wannabe John Jigsaw and Amanda. I was patiently waiting for it to get good and interesting, but ended up being severely underwhelmed. I did enjoy a few parts and that this novelette is fast-paced.
Why are the sexy ones two fries short of a happy meal? Daniel oh Daniel!!! I mean really?!! Dude is 6-plus feet of pure crazy! Sexy, dark, psychotic crazy!
This story is erotic horror. This story is meant for the mature audience around the corner, two blocks over from the pitch black dark spectrum. If you have a weak tummy or can't handle the craziest damn domination ever created, do NOT pass go or collect $200!
So Daniel is a "savior" of souls. He has taken it upon himself to clean up the "cesspool" we fondly refer to as earth. Now how can one incredibly sexy but psychotic dude accomplish that task? It's is explained in the story. The depraved things Daniel does in the name of "soul cleansing" require a darkness, an expertise if you will, that most humans can't process. Two scenes come immediately to mind. I won't go into detail but dayyyummmm dude is sick! I've since learned one of the scenes that completely blew my jaded ass away is NOT HUMANLY POSSIBLE. So yeah there are things you will read in this story that will have you running to trusty Google! As a reader, you can't move on without really KNOWING, ya know? Not knowing for sure will drive you absolutely cray cray!
So yeah this book is definitely a game changer for me. Grimm, One Hundred Saints, has some serious competition with Daniel for the number one spot for the "Olson Disorderlies".
if not, you are in for a treat. If you have had a taste, you're still in for a treat. We all know why you're back for more.
I found the mystery shrouding what is going on quite fascinating. What a way to suck you into the story..making you feel like you were one of the victims. No one knows what's going on. Nothing makes sense. You almost feel all the emotions Faith goes through in regards to this Daniel character.
it's always the pretty ones isn't it?
But really, pretty has nothing to do with it because look at the cover folks. This girl is living in darkness mostly. Can't see a dang thing. Ups the ante doesn't it? makes everything just a bit MORE. For us as readers as well.
But Daniel. Daniel Daniel Daniel. You may just have more than a bucket of screws loose but ya pull us in anyway. Heck, we're all probably willing to jump in a bucket of needles, just for you.
Now I've read dark, pitch black, disturbing stuff. Daniel is quite special in this aspect. He truly is. He's almost frighteningly .. a delight. Like how with some dark chocolate ... its so bitter...but yet still has a hint of something that keeps you curious you just might come back for more.
And that ending.
I say go read it now, before the chocolate melts in your hands and you don't have much left to consume.
This book was an absolute delight, if you like dark, fucked-up reads. I couldn't stop reading. The mystery that shrouded the entire story from start to finish had me reading faster and faster. I love the word play, I loved the flow, and I loved that I couldn't predict every thing that would happen (which I usually can). At times I was laughing out loud at Faith/Ione. Her witty and sarcastic narrative had me snorting. Even in times of darkness, you have to keep your sense of humor or you will go insane. I'm not sure if that's how Yolanda intended it to be, but that's how it came across to me. If you love Troy from Deep Blue, Daniel is gonna give you a run for your money. I felt torn, because I honestly feel like Daniel will steal your heart away. I never thought I'd love any of Yola's male characters as much as Troy. She surprised me with Daniel, that's for sure. I want a Troy/Daniel sandwich LOL. There's not much a person can say about this book without giving anything away, and I do NOT want to spoil it for anyone. I will say this: It is one of my favorite books I've read. It's different. The characters are absolutely intriguing. I loved every word, every sentence, and everything about 8 Days For Salvation. Clear your schedule on release day and read this book.
Some ideas are meant to stay ideas. This book is one of those ideas.
"8 Days For Salvation" had the potential to be a much better "horror?" than it was. I say "horror?" because this is in fact NOT a dark romance. Not even close. It was a missed opportunity. It could of been a good horror, but she focused on "shock factor" rather than telling the story she meant to write, if I can even call it a story.
Her writing is problamatic for o so many reasons. Starting with her lack of research. I mean how can she write a scene that involves the female anatomy and not know where everything is?. It is both lazy and sloppy.
I find it annoying that her writing is so basic and riddled with grammatical errors. Where was the editing? It didn't even feel scary because she created flat charcters who struggled to drive whatever that plot was. Where was the dramatic irony? Where was the suspense? Where was the horror? Where was the erotica it claimed to have because what she included was not it. It just wasn't. The twist at the end was a good idea, but was poorly executed. Where was the foreshadowing?
i’m sorry? what the fuck?🧍🏻♀️i read this so you don’t have to and i’m kicking myself for it bc why’d i have to be nosy 😭😭😭 WHAT PART OF THIS IS DARK ROMANCE?!? IT HAS ZERO ROMANCE IN IT?!
literally scrubbing this book from my brain mostly bc of 5 scenes in this book…yes 5..
i- idfk…
HONESTLY bffr!!! wtf are you talking ab sticking a rod in the hole of your clit WHAT HOLE?!? did we not learn about proper anatomy?!😭 my face was literally a mix of CONFUSION AND DISGUST the whole book.
i- what was that?…. o-okay.. james
how did you get from point A to 43rd street? —sound confusing? it should bc that’s how i felt reading this because the beginning & end are literally two separate books…
so we went from “oh no i’ve been kidnapped by a psychopath” to “now it’s my turn to pick cards & start my deliverance”
like HUH?!? BE FUCKING FORREAL NOW
i don’t know what’s going on and i simply don’t want to know